Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. The House showed a strong and unprecedented inclination to resist the dictates of the Anti-Saloon League on prohibition legislation. Beneath the parliamentary complications of the issue and the veneer of fiscal concern about the Budget system seemed to lie a tendency, even among ardent drys, to follow the commands of the new Administration and pursue moderate, middle-of-the-road enforcement?in other words, to continue the farce with politic solemnity and let Mr. Hoover proceed "constructively" with the "experiment . . . noble in motive...
...fair way to be a literary pariah because of its uncompromising frankness and defiance of the literary code of ethics. If someone questions the ethical importance of the modern novel, the least any reader can say is that Mr. Washburn displays a diabolical clever less in the thin veneer of coarseness he spreads over his famous plot...
...once printed some of Marry's verse, swept him into a strange circle of struggling young writers, successful newspaper patterers, sophisticated critics. One of these, an ash-blonde beauty, lured Marry to her studio, and quickly taught him that his slangy little slum girl was wanting in veneer. But his slangy little Josephine bought herself books on rhetoric and elocution, and disappeared temporarily from Marry's scheme of things...
...rank of men's universities are above criticism. Unfortunately for Miss Warfield, however, she does not prove her case. She says with the satiric generalization which has become popular in the last decade, that the typical "college woman." If she hered; and, largely as a result of this veneer, thin but adequate, of culture; learns a few catch phrases to repeat whenever a subject is mentioned about which educated persons are supposed to be informed; and, largely as a result of this veneer comes out into the world with a certain amount of poiso. The wise woman, says Miss Warfield...
...deeper outlook on life than Miss Warfield seems to have acquired, she does not for a moment consider. That even those whose undergraduate days were little more than a succession of dances and triumphs in feminine politics and sports may still have profited somewhat, even by the thin veneer of culture, she also leaves out of the question. The article proves nothing except that the whole question of higher education, its advantages and defects, is too broad for one mind too grasp, especially if that mind be more intent on satire than on sympathy...